Tbh, I prefer FSG as our current owners with them selling some shares to help generate more revenue to buy new players, but be still in charge of the club. Having seen the few billionaire names being mentioned, I am not keen on them.
I hope FSG do the right thing and choose carefully and to someone they know well and can trust.
He seems like a complete prick in any videos I’ve seen of him. Loud, brash, hard to listen to
I remember him when he was at Microsoft and was presenting Window Phones. He always struck me as an arrogant, classless, ignorant redneck. At least he behaved like that.
And I’ll never forget his famous words about iPhone.
I mean he’s not wrong, iPhone’s are massively overpriced and absolutely shite. I’ve only ever owned one, it started slowing down to a ridiculous extent after about 2 years and then literally blew up while I was charging it one day.
Samsung FTW.
I beg to disagree but not the thread for it.
That’s different topic whatsoever.
The thing is iPhones became massive success in which he did not believe. He strongly believed in Windows Phones which we all know where they are.
We all knew that a work phone HAD to have a keyboard. Didn’t take long for our thumbs to become far more dextrous than anybody ever imagined. Typing on a phone now.
Here’s one, next time you go to somebody’s house (or do it at home) if you have kids, ask them to ring the doorbell. They’ll use their thumbs not their index fingers.
I remember laughing about the IPAD what the hell would I do with that.
Fast forward to today and if it breaks it gets an instant replacement.
Agreed. Even my nephews are touching regular PC display with fingers. After a few moments they get why is there this little thing called mouse. Understandable. Different times, different tech.
What I’m trying to say is he as a businesman working in cell phone industry misjudged the potential success of promising technology.
I’m not judging him at all. I don’t what kind of an owner he is and what kind of a person he is. I just remember him all those years ago when he mocked Apple regularly 
Donated more to the Republicans than the Democrats though most of history comes prior to Obama’s re-election.
Seems to have been more bi-partisan since.
Did say tech might be worth keeping an eye on. I guess we will see though if it was him it would be a game changer.
His ownership currently of sports teams seems to be ok, I said this when Henry took over it’s worth comparing what they have done elsewhere. Hicks had bankrupted or close to bankrupted several organisations.
As bad as Bush and Cheney were, the Republican Party was a different beast pre-Obama so I guess we can forgive him for that
The iPad is one product I’ve never understood.
You have a laptop/desktop. You have a smartphone. Why does anyone need something which has neither the power of the former nor the portability of the latter? 
Apps and convenience
Play video games while watching a match or when your travelling you can watch programmes.
Also a lot easier when your hybrid working.
I don’t think he did TBH. I remember a senior engineer working for our biggest purchaser buying a touch screen computer. Was an absolute dog of a device. The tech on an iPhone is no more complicated but the software and touch integration is lightyears ahead. I remember laughing at my cousin who bought an iPhone. Touch screens were shit, I’d used one. Then I tried it. Owned one next phone upgrade and never looked back.
So, nothing’s happening with the owners so we’re chatting about random tech?
Geeks, aren’t they. Could be chatting about Linda, but no.
I go to Darwin’s thread for that
History is full of people who made errors, especially in tech… IBM ignoring the home computer springs to mind… Which allowed Microsoft to grow exponentially especially when they got their OS shipped with other companies desktops…
You could go through most prominant succesful businessmen and pick out big failures.
Arrogant? Of course, most succesful people are but ignorant? He oversaw massive leaps in profits for Microsoft whilst CEO. Launching Xbox, buying skype etc. He was also key at the start with securing the deal with IBM to write the code which became ms-dos and their OS on IBM PC’s, basically cornering the market. His tenure slid by the end but he was a huge part of the companies success.